High-frequency transducers based on integrated piezoelectric thick films for medical imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1524-1533

  Maréchal, Pierre ^b   Levassort, Franck ^b   Holc, Janez ^c   Tran Huu Hue, Louis Pascal ^b   Kosec, Marija ^c   Lethiecq, Marc ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; POROUS MATERIALS; SUBSTRATES; THICK FILMS;

AXIAL RESOLUTION; ELECTROMECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; PIEZOELECTRIC THICK FILMS; SINGLE-ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SKIN; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SKIN; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33747401662     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1665110     Document Type: Article

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